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All sorts of possibilities are discussed in a team's war room during the NFL draft, including potential trades.

The Colts weren't exactly in prime position to make deals in the early rounds given their lack of a first-round pick and the team's five total selections in the draft.

But that doesn't mean the notion of doing, well, something, never came up.

"You get some whispers and you get some phone calls, and just you kind of kick things around," Colts General Manager Ryan Grigson said.

In the end, however, moving up was simply prohibitive.

"At the end of the day, if there even was a guy that we really like at a certain spot in (Round) 1, it's just you don't have the means to even go get him," Grigson said. "Then, you kind of rob the chance to acquire players like we did (Friday). There's probably a chance we don't get (Donte) Moncrief or Jack (Mewhort), and we would get left with a lot of players that could have helped build this roster for just one guy.

"It was a fleeting thing. It just never even really made sense when we talked about it."

Trading down was always a possibility. And Grigson had the chance to do just that. But the calculation for the Colts was keeping their picks and sticking with the players they wanted.

"We felt like we wanted to make the most of our five picks, and if we turned them into seven picks or eight picks, we were willing to do that, too," Grigson said. "There were opportunities to do that but we felt like when our pick came, our guy was there both times. . . When that happens, it's a good thing."